A heavyweight fight between UFC vets Ricco Rodriguez (46-11 MMA, 0-0 BFC) and Seth Petruzelli (13-6 MMA, 0-0 BFC) also is set for the event.

Bellator officials announced the fights on Saturday.

Bellator 48 takes place Aug. 20 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn. The night’s main card airs on MTV2.
Konrad vs. Buentello will be televised, but it’s not clear if Rodriguez vs. Petruzelli will be part of the broadcast.

Konrad and Buentello initially were slated to fight at Bellator 42 back in April, but Buentello was forced off the card with a back injury.

The rescheduled fight is Konrad’s first since winning Bellator’s season-three
heavyweight tournament. With the win, the two-time NCAA Division I
national wrestling champion became Bellator’s first-ever heavyweight
champ. His tourney run included
decision victories over Rogent Lloret and Damian Grabowski, and a
submission win over Neil Grove. (Bellator policy dictates that only tourney winners get title
shots, so the belt won’t be on the line against Buentello.)

Buentello, a 14-year pro, is 2-1 since his March 2010 UFC release, and
the lone loss came to former UFC champ Tim Sylvia. Buentello, who went
14-2 from 2001 to 2007, has registered 17 knockout victories in 29
career wins. His fight with Konrad marks his Bellator debut.

While slimming down, former UFC champ Rodriguez has put together the longest win streak of his career. He went 7-0 in 2010 alone. In fact, he could have made it 8-0, but a Bellator 31 fight with Dave “Pee Wee” Herman was scratched when Rodriguez suffered a knee injury and was forced off the September card.

Petruzelli, a UFC and “The Ultimate Fighter 2″ veteran, is perhaps best known for a 2008 EliteXC win over then-unbeaten Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson. He rode the momentum of that CBS-televised victory to a UFC return, but he was released for a third time following losses to Ricardo Romero and Karlos Vemola. But he recently got back in the win column with a TKO of David Mewborn at an April regional event in Florida.

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